I’ll strip away all context and just tell you this. A legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback has been traded to the desperate New York Jets in the twilight of his career, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Monday.
Is that sentence about Brett Favre in 2008 or Aaron Rodgers in 2023? It’d be impossible to tell without the granular details like “Twitter” and “podcasts,” wouldn’t it?
Rodgers, at age 39, is headed to play with the Jets and try and compete for a championship. Fun fact: Favre was 38 when the Jets acquired him 15 years ago. Spooky. Why it’s almost as if Rodgers more or less followed Favre’s path to New York from Green Bay.
Dearest Reader: That’s precisely what happened.
As another Packers football luminary begins a fresh era with the Jets, let’s examine all the eerily similar ways Rodgers found his way to New York like Favre once did.